Cantonese: Sing sing wong
Mandarin: Xing xing wang
English: King Orangutan

Alternate North American Title: Goliathon
Alternate European Title: Colussus of the Congo

Shaw Brothers' disastrous attempt to cash in on the anticipated success of Dino DeLaurentiis' big budget KING KONG remake, THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN is unintentionally hilarious from start to finish and a must for bad movie addicts. When a giant ape starts crushing villagers in the Himalayas, shifty conman Lu Tien (Ku Feng) decides to capture the creature and put it on display in HK. He is able to convince adventurer Johnny Feng (Danny Lee Sau-yin, billed under his Mandarin name Li Hsiu-hsien) to head up an expedition through the Indian jungle, where they must fend off stock footage of charging elephants and a tiger that looks more interested in wrestling than mauling. Having lost all of his porters, Lu abandons Johnny but the latter is saved by Samantha (LADY DRACULA's Evelyne Kraft, who also appeared in SB's CHARLIE'S ANGELS ripoff, THE DEADLY ANGELS), a beautiful blonde jungle girl with perfect make-up and a fashionable animal skin bikini. It just so happens that her "pet," Utam, is the gargantuan ape that has been wreaking havoc in the area. The two fall in love (Johnny and Samantha, that is) and she agrees to let Utam be brought to HK. The ape is put on display to record crowds but breaks out of captivity when he (somehow) manages to see Lu trying to rape Samantha. After stepping on his human opponent for Samantha's affections, Utam proceeds to go ape in the streets.

A major production by Shaw standards, this made a quick exit from HK theatres and reportedly did no better in other territories. While not as bad its counterpart in the Korean-made A*P*E, the ape suit still looks comically unconvincing and the rear screen projection work manages to be even worse than that seen in the DeLaurentiis film. The rotten English dialogue and dubbing adds another level of enjoyment ("This is Samantha. She was raised in the jungle, you know.") but even more amusing is the sight of Kraft, walking the streets of HK in her bikini, and attracting no attention whatsoever! Also worthy of mention is the score, which consists of overstated DeWolfe library cues and a wonderfully awful romantic ballad that evokes memories of Kipp Hamilton's "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" from THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. Some ham-fisted attempts at pathos are actually strangely effective but everything else here is either so laughably cliched or just plain wrongheaded, you have to wonder just who at the studio thought that the public would ever buy this load of hokum.